Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Cyclone Wehner, Contributor

Cyclone Wehner

Cyclone Wehner is a Melbourne journalist writing about R&B, hip hop, dance music, synth-pop, and film/TV. She's interviewed everyone from Beyoncé to Daft Punk to Jane Campion. Cyclone has also DJed at feted clubs like Revolver. She is obsessed with vampires and, currently, curating concept playlists.

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Beyond Genres
"Inventing album concepts, storyboards, video treatments, cover art and general imagery is just the best part of being in a band."
Features / Music
The Jet Set
"Unfortunately, just after we’d signed the deal, and we’d spoken so much about what we were all gonna achieve together, Ajax passed away – which was pretty massive emotion-wise for us right in the middle of writing this album."
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Techno Relevance
"I guess the opportunity [to tour Australia] comes up pretty much every year, but it's a long way for me, so it doesn't always fit the calendar. But this one suited well, so I thought I'd make a trip again."
News / Music
Classixx Don't Feel Connected To Current EDM Culture
Are they the counteract to EDM?
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New Order
"It’s weird because the whole EDM thing, it’s dance music and it’s electronic, but a lot of it feels just as far away from our music as hard rock does, or rap music does, ‘cause it’s very different."
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Hear Them Roar
"We look at it as, we’re doing this now and we’re touring – [but] it’s hard to find time to do the other thing, which is writing. But just with time we’ve found a way to write more on the road."
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The Birth Of A Dance Supergroup
"It’s just boy and girl problems, really – or boy and boy problems, girl and girl problems…"
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The Next Big, Big Thing
"It’s a much better set, in my opinion. It just has a bit more snap. We’re playing some dance music and it does get kind of a bit ravey – and danceable."
News / Music
Splendour’s James Blake’s Shock At triple j’s ‘Male Bias’
"I don't know if that represents a devaluation of female artists."
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Yuksek On Why Playing Live Is Boring
He's gone back to DJing.
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A Fine Line
“The live tour was cool, but it’s boring sometimes to play only your own songs. So now I can play anything – depending on the crowd and my feelings.”
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Robert DeLong On The 'Smoke And Mirrors' Of Modern Dance Music
"People are always gonna be skeptical about everything we do."
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